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I like being underestimated. That`s what pushes me, drives me to make a great album. I keep having to prove myself. This (music/song writing) is the only thing I know how to do, the only thing I really love.

- Enrique Iglesias

(Kelly Slater, for one, said Mar Ohno shouldn`t be underestimated:) He has the wildcard again and can be dangerous if he loosens up and just surfs, ... It`ll be interesting to see if he gets on a roll and gives a real run like he did against Andy Irons in Niijima two years ago.

- Kelly Slater

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

- Jim Morrison

(During an interview about the recent death of Ronald Reagan, former US President and former Governor of California) . . . of course I think he was underestimated. People, mostly people on the East Coast, were saying that an actor couldn`t be President. But what they were forgetting was that he was the governor of the largest state in the Union.

- George W. Bush

Many people have underestimated our forward pack. Sometimes they don`t get the reward they`re due, but they were superb tonight.

- John Mitchell

But there`s a very limited pool of finance in the UK. To be honest, it`s a very clubby kind of place. In Hollywood there`s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there`s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you`re trying to break into the film industry, it`s definitely a bad thing. I never had any luck with interesting people in small projects when I was doing Following. Never had any support whatsoever from the British film industry, other than Working Title, the company that (producer) Emma Thomas was working for at the time. They let me use their photocopier, stuff like that, which is not to be underestimated.

- Christopher Nolan

The pressure for them is labor. That`s a key issue that can`t be underestimated for these guys.

- Craig Parker

I have been underestimated for decades. I`ve done very well that way.

- Helmut Kohl

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

- Helmut Kohl

The secularists in Turkey haven`t underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

- Orhan Pamuk

I underestimated the dilapidated, horrific conditions our city was in. ... My biggest failure was not communicating. We have a long way to go, but we`ve come a mighty long way.

- Kwame Kilpatrick

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

- Aaron Levenstein

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

- Alaa Abdel Fattah

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn`t discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.

- Alan Schlesinger

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.

- Allan Denham

The opposition said we underestimated the number. ... We were right on. ... If we would have used their numbers we would have been overstated.

- Angela Cook

I don`t think we underestimated these guys at all. It was 21-14. It was a good football game.

- Art Lucas

Key to the adaptive enterprise is the ability to quickly transform business processes and for these changes to be easily reflected in the supporting Enterprise Applications. From an Enterprise Application perspective the importance of gaining a good understanding of the current processes cannot be underestimated, as on many occasions the software is unfairly blamed for problems that are in fact due to inefficient or poor processes.

- Barbara Moses

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

- Kofi Annan